Watertown student in state schools newsletter

A Watertown High School sophomore graces the front page of the New York State School Boards Associations latest newsletter.

For the story titled New conversation urged about suicide prevention by Merri Rosenberg, Dani L. Fleming was interviewed about the purpose of the Stay Strong Club she founded for students earlier this year.

Its a place for kids to let off steam, she said in the article. Its not about being a counselor. My idea is that there would be someone they could trust.

The article questions whether flying a flag at half-staff or allowing people to post comments on a schools Facebook page when a student commits suicide is glamorizing the act.

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